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The only Democrat backed by the Tea Party Express is rejecting the group’s endorsement because they refused to expel an activist who attacked the NAACP.

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) sent a letter to the Tea Party Express Monday calling the blog post from activist Mark Williams “reprehensible.”

“Since the Tea Party Express refuses to reject and rebuke Mr. Williams, I have no choice but to decline your endorsement,” Minnick wrote, adding that he hopes the group eventually sees “the error of its ways.”

Williams sparked a furor last week when he posted a “satirical” letter from NAACP head Ben Jealous to President Abraham Lincoln.

“We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards,” the letter said. “That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!”

The National Tea Party Federation, which aims to serve as a national umbrella group for tea party organizations, expelled Williams and the Tea Party Express over the weekend because of the blog post.

Minnick was careful to highlight his support from local tea party groups in Idaho but argued leaders need to be held to a higher standard. “My interaction with the grassroots Tea Party movement here in Idaho has been very positive. I find the vast majority of their members to be cordial, polite and sincere,” he wrote.

The Tea Party Express did not specifically outline why Minnick was the lone Democrat they chose to endorse, though he did vote against three key initiatives that the group opposes: health reform, a cap-and-trade bill and the economic stimulus package.

Other Democrats have seized on the Tea Party Express’s support for Williams. The Nevada Democratic Party has called on Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle, who is challenging Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, to condemn Williams.

Angle “should come out and denounce Mark Williams specifically, rebuke him for his virulently racist writings and sever ties with the Tea Party Express,” state Democratic Party spokeswoman Phoebe Sweet said in a statement.

Other Republican Senate candidates endorsed by the Tea Party Express include Marco Rubio in Florida, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Jim DeMint in South Carolina and Todd Tiahrt in Kansas. House Republicans backed by the group include Reps. Tom McClintock (Calif.), Tom Price (Ga.), Mike Pence (Ind.), Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Joe Wilson (S.C.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.).

Prove that's sistemic problem, otherwise you are the racist. Also, I could say that based on your signature phrase, you are sexest and discrimination against gender goes against the civil rights act as is discrimination based on skin color!

The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," Sherrod said.

"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough," Sherrod said. "So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him."

The rampant racisim and sexism in the Tea Party groups and the Republican party will eventually be its undoing. It won't happen for the mid terms in 2010 and probably won't happen for 2012 but eventually the hatred that these awful people exhibit toward Muslims, blacks, women and gays will eventually put them away. Heaven only knows what will replace them because we need a two party system, but nobody on this earth needs the kind of hatred that the GOP, Beck, Limbaugh and the TeaParty people exhibit. What a hate filled people they are and how shameful that this hatred is on exhibit for rest of the world to see.

The rampant racisim and sexism in the Tea Party groups and the Republican party will eventually be its undoing. It won't happen for the mid terms in 2010 and probably won't happen for 2012 but eventually the hatred that these awful people exhibit toward Muslims, blacks, women and gays will eventually put them away. Heaven only knows what will replace them because we need a two party system, but nobody on this earth needs the kind of hatred that the GOP, Beck, Limbaugh and the TeaParty people exhibit. What a hate filled people they are and how shameful that this hatred is on exhibit for rest of the world to see.

The rampant racisim and sexism in the Tea Party groups and the Republican party will eventually be its undoing.

It hasn't destroyed the NAACP after so many years. You want a racist organization or two? NAACP, Black Panthers~ Both left wing, I might add. Yet, people go after 3 or 4 nut cases who showed up at a tea party rally that could have been planted by liberals!

As a Mexican born US citizen, I have seen more racism by the left than by the right.

BlueLight Party: Conservative Reply #12 Jul. 19, 2010 - 6:47 PM ESTmyra: Jul. 19, 2010 - 6:41 PM EST The rampant racisim and sexism in the Tea Party groups and the Republican party will eventually be its undoing.

It hasn't destroyed the NAACP after so many years. You want a racist organization or two? NAACP, Black Panthers~ Both left wing, I might add. Yet, people go after 3 or 4 nut cases who showed up at a tea party rally that could have been planted by liberals!

As a Mexican born US citizen, I have seen more racism by the left than by the right. .

YOU ARE NO MORE MEXICAN THAN I AM WHITE! And you need to stop spreading lies.

If you are a canadian national, Your opinion of our political system is unneeded. If you are a canadian-American, you are just a hater from canada. Interesting news today- canada's economy has turned the corner, and is now creating real jobs. But, since the Conservative Party is in power, you won't hear much from the lame stream media.

Minnick shows good judgment in declining the endorsement of an organization that won't reprimand or exclude a blatant, outspoken racist, but he lacks the fundamental good judgment to support the successful Democratic efforts to save our economy from another Republican Great Depression and efforts to reduce dangerous, global-warming gas emissions and the successful efforts to create new health consumer rights, reduce insurance premiums, and eliminate great Medicare fraud and cut over a trillion dollars from our deficit over twenty years.